Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

There is discord among the British
Unionists.
The Chesterfield stakes at Newmarket
were won by Ayrshire.
Secretary Endicott has denied the public
access to the war records.
Rev. Maurice Bourke, of Cheyenne, has
been appointed Bishop.
Lestrange, the missing British officer,
has been seen in Brussels.
Howard D. Troop is wanted to accept a
fortune left him in Maine.
Thurman seems to be the choice of the
Ohio Democrats for Governor.
Senator Allison is to make tour of the
West in the interest of Blaine.
The country in the vicinity of Paris is
suffering from & severe drought.
The Union Pacific is going to build a
feeder into the Black Hills region.
Judges Zane and Foreman, of the Utah
Supreme Court, are to be removed.
The new constitution of the Knights of
Labor will 60 into effect on Monday.
Rouvier will carry out the proposed ex-
pertinent of mobilizing two army corps.
The Thistle sports thirteen flags repre-
senting the number of races won by her.
The assessment roll of Lassen county is
completed. The total assessment for 1887
is s., $50, IA.
Mrs. John A. Witte-, of Denver, is sus-
pected of having poisoned her husband
who died recently.
Tuesday evening the residence of John
Theodore was destroyed by fire near Susan.
vile, Lassen county.
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| Greenhill shot and killed his brother Johr
st. Louis citizens have decided to invite
President Cleveland to visit that city il
October after the mean Grand Army leave
Captain Samuel Z. Griffen, formerly O
| the United States Navy, died at Panama OF
July 4th Of paralysis. He was 81 years o
| age.
| The strike in the Pennsylvania coke re
| gions has been declared off by a conven
ton representing 5000 of the strikin;
cookers.
| The freedom of the city of Glasgow wa
yesterday conferred upon Andrew Carnegi,
in rec,=n;tion of his gift of library t.
| the town.
| The assessmentroll Just completed shows
the total raiuation of taxable property il
Tulare county to be $13,673, 465, an increas,
over last year of 81 ,6S0,65S.
Indications point to three vacancies OF
| the Democratic side of the next Senate
caused by contests or investigations in Cali
fornia, West Virginia and Indiana.
The Yreka Town Trustees have passed
preliminary ordinance for taking a vote OF
the issuance of $4,000 in bonds to build
branch railroad to the Central Pacific line
Several tenants were evicted in Arklow
Ireland, yester lay, after Il hot resistance
The people subsequently held an indigna
ton meeting, at which addresses were mad
by the priests.
The Amer Of Afghanistan has nailed f
the Candahar gate, underneath the Koran
a Proclamation Offering free pardon and re
mission ni Two years taxes to all rebel
who surrender.
Klein and Grebert, two of the men o.
trial a Leipsic on 4 charge of treason, wpr
yesterday convicted. Klein was sentences
TO six years IN tie penitentiary AMI tire
bert ~ five years.
The Wenc!sOw liver in China has oven
flowed its bslii;S, submerging miles of ter
ritory. Thousands of persons are believe
to have been drowned. The suffering c
the survivors is described as terrible Chu
chow city was submerged and the inhabi
tants taken Oft in boats.
1t is said that Powderly intends resignin
his position as head Of the Knights @
Labor at the close Of the year. His reason
are the distress he suffers because of III
discussions in the Order, misrepresenta
tons and false accusations, which, h
claims, are made against him on ever
hand and a desire for privacy and rest.